Pre-register for GIS Day Event @ UCF focused on Maps, Apps, and Drones
JJoin us at the University of Central Florida on Thursday, November 14 from 10:30-1:30 for a free STEAM education event. GIS Day 2019 at UCF: A Focus on Maps, Apps, and Drones!
Pre-register your class, organization, home school, family or just yourself for our 2019 Maps, Apps, and Drones On-Campus Event as part of GIS Day 2019, hosted by UCF's Citizen Science GIS team, the Department of Sociology, and iSTEM. The event will take place in the Student Union on the UCF main campus. Students will complete hands-on activities focused on maps, apps and drones with our Citizen Science GIS team.
Pre-register at this link: https://forms.gle/gsY3vEKZ45FaPhzZA.
TargetAudience: 2nd to 8th grade.
Students will engage in aninteractive assembly and then participate in hands-on learning activities thatmay include: using mapping apps, walking across a giant map of Florida, flyingmini-drones, using virtual reality goggles, learning about topography with anaugmented reality sandbox, and using block coding with Sphero robots, and more!
This event will fill quickly.It is free and open to all educators and their students, but pre-registration isrequired. We are limited to no more than 375 attendees in the student union forthis free STEAM education event.
If you have questions about the event, please contact Elise Lorenzo at lorenzoelise@knights.ucf.edut. If you would like to learn more about our research and educational programs please visit our website at www.citizensciencegis.org. Citizen Science GIS is an international award-winning organization at University of Central Florida committed to changing the ways communities and scientists work together in research and education.
PriorityPre-Registration Deadline is October 18, 2019 at 5 pm. Selected participantswill be contacted to confirm details by October 25.